Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Rollason

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. F. H. Rollason is a schoolmaster and lives at Quinton, Birmingham. He studied at Birmingham University and Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts. He is a past president of Rowley Regis Teachers’ Association and treasurer of the Oldbury and Halesowen Liberal Association. During the war he served as a major with the Royal Artillery.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

CANDIDATE : Clay

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Clay is a secretary-accountant in Hull. When living in Leeds he was secretary of a Liberal association, and when he moved to Hull in 1945 became honorary agent to the Liberal candidate in N.W. Hull. He has been chairman of N.W. Hull Liberal Association and president of Hull Liberal Association.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Jackson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Jackson is 27 and lives in London. Educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, he served during the war in India, the Middle East, Italy, and Germany, and has since studied law at Oxford and taken a degree in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, he was secretary of the Labour Club, treasurer of the Union, and secretary of the University Law Society. A member of the Oxford University debating team which toured South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya, he also led a British team to India, Pakistan, and Ceylon under the British Council, and has just returned from a debating tour for the English Speaking Union in the United States and Canada.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckinghamshire South

CANDIDATE : Belfrage

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Bruce Belfrage, who took an honours degree at Oxford in modern languages, started his career as an actor, was a broadcaster in the early days of 2LO at Savoy Hill, and in 1935 joined the B.B.C. as a casting director and later became a news reader and announcer. He enlisted in the R.N.V.R. in 1942, and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was born in 1901.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Knutsford

CANDIDATE : Bromley-Davenport

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. W. H. Bromley – Davenport was elected in 1945. His family has been linked with the House of Commons since the reign of Queen Anne, and one ancestor, William Bromley, was Speaker. He served in the Grenadier Guards until 1937 and in 1939 raised and commanded the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was appointed a Conservative whip in 1948, and last year was made Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Kelly

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. H. A. Kelly, an Army officer for 28 years, is now a farmer in North Wales. Born in 1899, he joined the Army from Sandhurst in 1918, and in the last war commanded West African troops in Burma.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Truro

CANDIDATE : Brinton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brinton, aged 47, was educated at Haileybury, and is a London publisher. For many years before the war he was associated with the League of Nations Union, and is the author of several books. He has visited Spain several times, taking on one occasion an unofficial delegation from the British churches ; and in Jamaica he helped to found a Council for Civil Liberties. In the later years of the war he had a farm near Totnes.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : High Peak

CANDIDATE : Halsall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McC. Halsall was born at South-port in 1906 and educated at ?erchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Lancashire. He is a manager with a firm of calico manufacturers. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Devon North

CANDIDATE : Peto

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. C. H. M. Peto comes of a family with many Parliamentary associations, his father, grandfather, and brother having been members. He entered Parliament for the old Barnstaple division in 1945. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned as a Regular Army officer in 1918 and saw much service in the last war, becoming chief liaison officer to the allied contingents on Field-Marshal Montgomery’s staff. He has been chairman of the Conservative Party Disability Pensions Committee. In the last Parliament he introduced a Bill for the protection of animals from cruelty.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset North

CANDIDATE : Crouch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. Crouch is a farmer and comes from a farming family which has been connected with North Dorset for 300 years. He has been a member of the county executive of the Wilts and Dorset branch of the National Farmers’ Union. From 1939, he was a member of the Machinery Committee of the Wilts War Agricultural Executive Committee, and introduced mechanical corn growing to Wiltshire.

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